North Bridge, Edinburgh is a Grade A listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 12 December 1974. 3 related planning applications.

North Bridge, Edinburgh

WRENN ID
sunken-porch-torch
Grade
A
Local Planning Authority
City of Edinburgh
Constituency
Edinburgh East and Musselburgh MP: Chris Murray (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
12 December 1974
OS grid reference
NT 258 738
Coordinates
55.95186, -3.18841
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The South African War Memorial, located at North Bridge in Edinburgh, was designed by engineers Blyth and Westland with architectural details by Robert Morham, and it was built between 1894 and 1897. The bridge features three wide spans, each supported by six arched iron girders resting on masonry piers. Decorative cast-iron arcading adorns the spandrels, which are situated beneath a consoled and festooned entablature. The piers have canted ends and festooned tops. A bronze plaque is positioned at the center of the bridge, and the War Memorial is listed separately.

Local climate

North Bridge, Edinburgh sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 970 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 76% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 53% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 43 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 81% of listed buildings. Of these, 25 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.

Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.

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